Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Parenting 101

So I've convinced Sophia that mommies can tell when their children are lying by touching their noses. If their nose is warm, it means the child is telling a lie.

When I suspect she's making something up, I sometimes say, "well, I guess I'll just have to touch your nose to find out for sure"....I'll see her mind going a million miles a minute, trying to figure out what to do...then, one of 2 things happens:

1) She smiles broadly and says, "okay, go ahead!" or

2) She kind of stammers and backpedals, saying, "well, I meant to say...."

It works pretty well....

But....

does that mean that her mommy is lying?

will she find that the whole nose thing is a lie if she touches my nose?!